Nominations Tutorial

[jenn_calaelen]

How to Nominate!

1. 
   Decide on what to nominate! (The best/hardest step of all.) By nominating fandoms you ensure they will be available to offer and request in Yuletide this year. You can nominate up to 3 fandoms with a maximum of 4 characters each.
   
   

Comments

[annemaris]

If I'm nominating a movie ("Teen Beach Movie") that now has a sequel ("Teen Beach 2") and want to nominate characters from both movies, how should I do this? None of them have last names, and the ones from the first one are already in AO3 tags (eg. "Lela (Teen Beach Movie)"). If I want to nominate a character from the second movie should I write it as "Alyssa (Teen Beach 2)"?

[morbane]

I'm a little unclear, but you want to nominate both movies as a fandom, right? (otherwise, it seems unlikely you could nominate a character from the second movie under the first movie). I assume the two movies are closely related/ in the same continuity?

Anyway - for characters from the first movie, go ahead and use the canonical ("Leia (Teen Beach Movie)").

"Alyssa (Teen Beach 2") or "Alyssa (Teen Beach Movies)" would both work.

[annemaris]

Yes, I wanted to nominate both movies as one! I think Teen Beach 2 has been sorted under Teen Beach Movie on AO3 so I figured I'd go with that instead of trying to make a tag that tries to include both movies? (Like a series tag or smth, idk.) The sequel follows directly from the first movie.

[morbane]

Sure, that sounds fine, then.

Same character, different fandom

[ext_3321862]

I would like to nominate one character under two seperate but related fandoms. (Thrawn, under both "Outbound Flight" and "The Thrawn Trilogy".) The two works otherwise share no characters and are in time periods separated by 30+ years, so it's not like they could be nominated together. How do I manage it?

Both fandoms are under the fic count, as is Thrawn himself.

Re: Same character, different fandom

[jenn_calaelen]

That's fine. You'd have to nominate both fandoms separately and differentiate the character tag eg Thrawn (Outbound Flight) and Thrawn (The Thrawn Trilogy).

What if characters are named exactly like the title of the work?

[elektra121]

I wasn't able to create a tag set, seemingly because two of my fandoms had characters that were named like the title of the work (or, the other way round): Kudrun is the heroine of "Kudrun" and Miss Julie is the heroine of "Miss Julie"...

What can I do about this?

Re: What if characters are named exactly like the title of the work?

[morbane]

Yes, the tags for characters and for the fandom must be different.

For Miss Julie, do you mean the play, the film, or something else? These generally have more information attached to the fandom - ie, if you meant the film, the fandom tag would be "Miss Julie (2014)", and so distinct from the character.

Similarly, for Kudrun, if it is the canon I am thinking of, the label Kudrun | Gudrunlied might work.

If these are not the correct canons, please give more detail.

Re: What if characters are named exactly like the title of the work?

[morbane]

(If there is no sensible way to expand the title of the canon - googling further, I see that "Gudrunlied" would be better as "Das Gudrunlied", and maybe isn't a good idea anyway) - you can also nominate the character as "Kudrun - Character".)

Re: What if characters are named exactly like the title of the work?

[elektra121]

Ah, thank you!

[ext_2828497]

I know a similar question was already asked, but just to double-check: if we're nominating albums, it's okay to ask for individual songs as "characters," right? I plan to nominate a few albums, at least one of which doesn't have a lot of discrete characters. Thanks!

[morbane]

Yes, it is.

[grey_bard]

I believe the correct format for Love for the Cold-Blooded is "Love for the Cold-Blooded - Alex Gabriel", but someone has already nominated it using "Love for the Cold-Blooded or The Part-Time Evil Minion's Guide to Accidentally Dating a Superhero" (the full title and subtitle without author name), so I did too since I didn't want to mess up nominations.

What should I do?

[morbane]

Thanks. Could I ask you to please re-post this comment on the Evidence Post? That will be more handy for us when we're approving fandoms and checking data about them.

(And neither way would have really messed up nominations, but we appreciate your care, and we also appreciate you nominating in such a way as to show that your characters and the other nominator's characters definitely belong to the same fandom.)